GIF of the Day: Surfaces Beyond the Third Dimension

Imagine yourself in 1996. You’re tired of that Magic Eye® poster in your room. What’s the next way to get high on something “pleasing to the eye and challenging to the mind”? GIFs.

Screenshot from the web exhibition

In “Surfaces Beyond the Third Dimension,” a virtual and IRL exhibition hosted by the Providence Art Club in March 1996, GIFs were described as “pleasing to the eye and challenging to the mind.” Created by Thomas F. Banchoff and Davide Cervone, among others, the GIFs show four-dimensional objects rotating in space, all according to various principles in mathematics.